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THE SCOTT ENGINEBy Paul Wilkins7 Douglas Street, Mannum, 5238, Sth, Australia In November, 1897, Mr. James Livesey Scott and his son Ernest commenced work at Mannum, South Australia. They worked on Paddle Steamers, in the dry dock where today the P.S. Marion rests. In addition to this, Mr. Scott had an agency for imported stationary engines and pumps which he sold along the River Murray. Directly opposite the dry dock, Mr. Scott rented a building in which, in 1905, Mr. Em Scott designed a stationary engine and centrifugal pump, patent No. 5473. The factory had its own brass foundry, but all the iron castings were done in Adelaide by Stewart & Harley. Otherwise the design, pattern making, machining and fitting were done in the Mannum workshop by a team of very capable tradesmen. All the Scott engines were of the vertical, 2 stroke type, available in 8, 5, 3, and 1½ HP rat... 801 of 3271 characters shown.
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